I was born in Thailand and moved to the United
States when I was eighteen years old. I suppose I inherited my artistic
abilities from my father who is a comics artist in Thailand. I've never
attended art school or had any formal art training. I basically taught
myself sculpting and became serious about it in the early 90's. Most of
the work I was doing then consisted of one of a kind sculptures and prototypes
for various companies. I was inspired to create the Generic Man when I
saw how so many people converted existing model kits from one character
to another. I thought, "I can sculpt, why don't I sculpt and cast just
a plain figure so other people can use it as a base to customize different
characters?